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While traveling, how do you........................
While traveling, how do you entertain your kids? Do they have special/favorite toys, travel games, game boys, or do you make up games as you go?
Coming from a military family we traveled a lot and had many hours in the car when being transfered from one base to another. We usually made up games, colored or drove our dad nuts The one game that we liked doing was to see how many different state license plates we could find and how many cars had the same state....kept us busy!
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Re: While traveling, how do you........................
We bring lots of books to look at (some old favorites and many new books), coloring books and crayons, some new toys to bring out as needed, a couple toys that are easily played with in the car (PVC figurines, beanie babies, etc.). The kids have just gotten to the age where they can play gameboy a bit, so we now bring those with us (and several games). We also bring those "magic writing" books where the yellow pen can make stuff appear on the page. Also plenty of blank paper or a couple notebooks and some pens because our kids love to draw and practise writing. We have quite a carful of stuff! -HiddenMickey
Re: While traveling, how do you........................
My son is still pretty young (5 yrs. old) and can't read yet, so our options are a bit more limited, but I find that he loves to bring a walkman and some books on tape. Whenever we travel to Disney we suprise him with a few new tapes to keep him busy. Also, he loves to play with colorforms or magnetic "colorform like" story boards which are great for traveling.
Luckily, we've been fortunate enough to be able to fly to WDW each time we've visited, so we only have a couple of hours that we need to keep him occupied. At his age, just being in the airport (a rare treat!) and on the plane are enough to interest him for quite some time!
Re: While traveling, how do you........................
My kids were young before the days of walkmans and game boys.(They are now 27,29 & 30.) In those days, we had a small motor home. That's a great way to travel with kids. They can sleep when they want, play games, talk to mom & dad about new and interesting sites, and try to get the truckers to blow their horn.
I never had to plan their activities, they each had their own interests and packing was their responsibility! They were seasoned campers, so they had lots of practice!
Our granddaughter is a seasoned traveler (flying & by car) at the age of 4, and she too usually decides what she wants to take
with her. Of course, on our up coming trip in April, she and her mom are flying, and being a grandma, I just had to buy her a surprise goody bag to take on the plane! It's great being a grandma!!
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Laura
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[This message has been edited by LauraBelle V. Hime (edited 03-30-2000).]
Re: While traveling, how do you........................
They each (my 12 and 8 yr old) bring there own small bag of things. Ex: coloring books, gameboy, books, comic books, small card games, uno, etc. I also bring my own "goodie bag" of stuff too. When they get bored of the stuff they are playing with, I pull out a new something such as a book, or small toy, etc that I pick up through out the year on sale just for occassions like this. They like the surprize of mom's goodie bag.
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The one game that we liked doing was to see how many different state license plates we could find and how many cars had the same state....kept us busy!
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